Read the quote by Jane Addams. “The Settlement then, is an experimental effort to aid in the solution of the social and industrial problems . . . in a great city.” Which best describes what Addams meant by “the Settlement”?

Addams was describing a settlement house: a neighborhood center where reformers lived and worked to help address urban poverty and other social problems. Hull House, founded by Jane Addams in Chicago, was a well-known example of a settlement house. So “the Settlement” refers to Hull House, not to Chicago as a whole or to the social gospel.

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